Butterfly:-
This lighting pattern is used in portrait photography where the key light is placed above and looking at the subject's face. This creates a dramatic shadow on the person which looks like a "butterfly".
Rembrandt:-
This technique is where a small inverted triangle of light is shown under the person's eye, This creates compelling portraits with very little equipment needed. A single light source is what needed.
Photographers who use Studio Lighting in their work:-
Irving Penn:
Penn is known to heavily prefer natural lighting to the point that he had to build himself a set of tungsten light to just stimulate a skylight in his windowless studio.
Richard Avedon:
Avedon uses a lighting a commonly used lighting pattern/technique called Rembrandt, he mainly wanted his lighting to be invisible and ultimately opted for open shade, simply choosing a white background which eliminates distraction pulling the focus to the subject matter.
Images from the workshop:-
Studio Picture:-
In the studio we used the two main lighting patterns to create these images, "Butterfly & Rembrandt". We used different equipment to take this pictures, such as The light meter to time the flash correctly with the camera, we used the studio flash head as a light source and we can change the the power output settings to create different types of photographs.
As young student photographers we had to be able to control lighting situations and be able to use additional lighting on set, to be able to use different types of lighting patterns such as Butterfly and Rembrandt, to be able to look at different variations on different lighting types such as high key, rim, hair lighting and to be able to use reflectors with different light modifiers.
The Process of Achieving Darkroom Print:-
For black and white print, it works by exposing light through a negative to light sensitive paper and then using chemicals to reveal the image. The lighter areas on the negative allow more light to get to the paper and produce a darker area.
The Traditional Print Workshop:-
Toning:-
Toning is a method of changing colour from a black and white picture to a toned coloured photograph.
In traditional photography, toning is a chemical process which is carried out on silver-based photographic prints.
The most common types of toners are Selenium which is used for archival photos. Sepia Toner produces a warmer tone to enhance the quality of the print for archival photos.
Summary:-
We learnt that using different brightness's can determine how the picture looks after the picture is taken and moving the light to different positions helps since you can get different affects for when it shines on the person. I personally like studio photography the best so personally I like this topic more over other ones we have done.
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